Joint European Project
JEP 23030 - 2002
Master of Science in Socio-economics

Agenda

Invitation to the Project Conference on the 17^th March 2006

Dear Project Members

Tashkent State University of Economics in cooperation with
the Institute of Economics of the Uzbek Academy of Science (Uzbekistan),
Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies (Austria),
University of Kassel (Germany)

is holding a partnership conference on

Distribution of experience of the project on development of
Master courses in socio economics and evaluation of perspectives
for quality assurance of education in the partner institutions

in framework of
TEMPUS PROJECT CD-JEP-23030 -2002
Ms IN SOCIO-ECONOMICS: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Agenda for the 17^th March 2006

Venue:

49, Uzbekistanskaya street,
Tashkent city, 700003,
Uzbekistan

Tel: (998-71) 132-63-80
E-mail: gkarieva@yahoo.com

Program of the Partnership Conference, JEP 23030-2002
“Evaluation of the textbooks and perspectives of quality assurance in partner institutions”
17^th - 18^th September 2005
Place of the Seminar: Ak-Tash resort house of the IE Academy of Science
Moderation: Dr. Todor Balabanov

Participants

Saidakhror S. Gulyamov – Rector of TSUE

Bakhodir Khodiev – project’s coordinator, presentation

Gulnora Karieva – project’s administrator, managerial functions

Adkham Bekmuradov – first vice-rector of TSUE, participation

Mafirat Kasimova – presentation

Mukhitdin Yusupov - participation in working group

Ulugbek Mukhitdinov – participation in working group

Rakhmatilla Tadjiev - participation in working group

Rano Dadabaeva - participation in working group

Tatyana Sarsatskaya - participation in working group

Olim Azizov - participation in working group

Khairilla Kurbanov - participation in working group

Abbas Shermukhamedov - participation in working group

Irina Djalalova - participation in working group

Dilmurod Rasulev - participation in working group

Kamil Bashirov - participation in working group

17^th of September, Saturday

10:00 – 12:20

Plenary Session

Presentations of: Minister, Rector, Aziza Abdurakhmanova, EU representative, Project coordinator

12:00 – 14:00

Business Lunch at a nearby Restaurant

14:00 – 16:00

Session on Quality Assurance

Presentations by the participants of the Quality Assurance Seminar in Germany:

• Prof. Mafirat Kasimova – Tashkent State University of Economics - 20 minutes
• Dr. Bakhodir Khakimov - Institute of Economics of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences - 20 minutes
• Prof. Elmira Alimova - Bishkek Academy of Finance and Economics- 20 minutes
• Prof. Chinara Adamkulova Kyrgyz – European Faculty of the Kyrgyz National University- 20 minutes
• Prof. Dr. Marion Schomburg, Director of Educational Methodological Department, University of Kassel - 20 minutes

Discussion

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

17:00 –Open-ended

Discussion of the program of the working groups for the next day

19:00

Reception for the JEP participants only

18^th of September, Sunday

9:30 – 12:00

Sessions of the Working Groups

• Econometrics and Macro Economics
• Public Finance
• Financial markets and Risk Assessment
• Equilibrium Modeling

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:00 – 16:00

Practical Workshop on the use of Atutor in the educational process

Moderator: Prof. Lalieva, Kyrgyz National University

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 - Open-ended

Recommendations and Conclusions

 

Agenda of the Further Education Seminar for
Professors from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyztan
6 - 10 June 2005

Monday June 6,2005

9:00h

- Welcome

- Report on the status of the project by Dr. Todor Balabanov, IHS Vienna, together with the trainees from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyztan;

9:30h - 12:00h

- Introduction into concepts and methods of the accreditation procedures of study programmes, introduced by an expert provided by GES

14:00h - 16:00h

- Quality assurance at the central level of the University of Kassel, Ms Schomburg, Head of the department for teaching and research of the university of Kassel

16:30h - 17:30h

- Compilation of open questions regarding concepts and pro¬cedures of the implementation of quality assurance proce¬dures for the newly developed study programme in Uzbeki¬stan and Kyrgystan - to be examined at ZEVA

Tuesday June 7, 2005

09:00h - 10:00h

- Models of Quality Assurance at the individual study pro¬grammes of the University of Kassel - Introduction by Maiboom/Over

10.30h – 12.00h

- Presentation by representatives of the individual study programmes at Kassel University

14:00h - 15:30h

- Presentation of the accreditation process of the Master of Higher Education

- Excursion to the City of Kassel

Wednesday June 8, 2005

08:00h

- Departure to ZEvA Hannover

10:00h - 11:00h

- Introduction: Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Europe (Hermann Reuke, Managing Director of ZEvA)

11:00h - 12:30h

- Principles and Standards for Accreditation in Germany (Dr. Stefan Arnold, Head of ZEVA Accreditation Department)

14:00h - 17.30h

- Case study on Accreditation

18:00h

- return to Kassel

Thursday June 9, 2005

08:00h

- Departure to ZEvA Hannover

09:00h - 10:30h

- Evaluation in Lower Saxony (Dr. Thorsten Futterer, Head of Evaluation Department)

10:30h - 13:00h

- Conclusions for the implementation of monitoring procedures

14:00h - 15:30h

- Study Projects: Write up session

15:30h - 16:30h

- Concluding Session (Dr. Arnold, Dr. Futterer, other ZEvA representatives)

17:30h

- return to Kassel

Friday June 10, 2005

09:00h -16:00h

- working session: Adoption of the information received to a quality assurance module for the newly implemented study programmes in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyztan (GES)

- design of a working plan for the implementation of the devel¬oped quality assurance modules – next steps